Local player Xin Qi started the day as one of the shorter stacks, but he has been active to start the night and has grown his stack to just around the tournament average.
The first hand was a save – from the cutoff, Xin shoved 18.5K and was called by Joseph Abou Khalil (one of the chip leaders).
Xin: 
Joseph: 
It was a very nice spot for Xin and the community cards were safe: 
.
A few hands later, Nicolas Belcourt raised his button to 12K and Xin (big blind) shoved – and got an instant call in response. Nicolas showed 
while Xin would need some help, holding just 
.
He got all the help he needed by the river as the flop of 
gave Xin the gunshot draw which didn’t hit on the turn – 
– but did appear on the river 
.
